Antennaria suffrutescens
Antennaria howellii
evergreen everlasting, evergreen pussytoes, everlasting pussytoes, shrubby pussytoes, Siskiyou everlasting
Antennaire de Howell, everlasting pussytoes, Howell's pussytoes, small pussytoes
5–12 cm (densely tufted, bases woody; root crowns relatively slender).
(6–)8–35 cm (stems sometimes stipitate-glandular).
none.
1–9(–12) cm.
absent at flowering.
1-nerved, spatulate to oblanceolate, spatulate-obovate, narrowly to broadly ovate, or cuneate-oblanceolate, 20–48(–65) × 2.5–20 mm, tips mucronate, faces abaxially tomentose, adaxially green-glabrous or gray-pubescent.
spatulate, 5–12 × 2–4 mm, not flagged (apices emarginate or obtuse, abaxial faces tomentose, adaxial green).
linear, 8–40 mm, distal sometimes flagged (apices acute).
staminate 5–9 mm; pistillate 10–15 mm.
staminate 6–6.5 mm; pistillate 6–11 mm.
staminate 4–5 mm; pistillate 5–8 mm.
staminate 3–4 mm; pistillate 3.5–6.5(–8) mm.
(relatively wide) distally white.
(bases sometimes rose) distally white, cream, or light brown.
borne singly.
3–15 in corymbiform arrays.
1–2 mm, papillate;
pappi: staminate 4.5–5.5 mm; pistillate 7–9 mm.
0.8–2 mm, ± papillate;
pappi: staminate 4–4.5 mm; pistillate 5.5–9 mm.
= 28.
= 56, 84, 140 (under A. neodioica).
Antennaria suffrutescens
Antennaria howellii
Antennaria suffrutescens is characterized by suffrutescent growth form, relatively small, emarginate, adaxially glabrous, coriaceous leaves, and relatively large heads borne singly. It is known only from serpentine soils in open montane pine forests in Curry and Josephine counties, Oregon, and neighboring Del Norte and Humboldt counties, California (R. J. Bayer and G. L. Stebbins 1987). Antennaria suffrutescens may have contributed to the origin of some of the clones of the A. rosea complex (e.g., J. T. Howell 27718, NY).
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Subspecies 4 (4 in the flora).
The Antennaria howellii (previously A. neodioica) polyploid complex is highly variable morphologically; four more or less distinct subspecies can be recognized within it. The sexual progenitors of the complex are A. neglecta, A. plantaginifolia, A. racemosa, and A. virginica (see R. J. Bayer 1985). Antennaria marginata may also be a minor contributor to the origins of the complex. A. Cronquist (H. A. Gleason and Cronquist 1991) included members of this complex in A. neglecta; I maintain, because these apomicts are of hybrid polyploid origin from among multiple sexual progenitors, they best not be included within the circumscription of any one sexual progenitor (Bayer 1989d).
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1. Basal leaves green-glabrous adaxially | → 2 |
1. Basal leaves pubescent adaxially (sometimes glabrescent with age) | → 3 |
2. Basal leaves 1-nerved, 20–40 × 6–9 mm; distal cauline leaves flagged; phyllaries distally white or cream | subsp. canadensis |
2. Basal leaves 1–3-nerved, 25–40 × 9–12 mm; distal cauline leaves not flagged; phyllaries distally light brown or white | subsp. howellii |
3. Basal leaves spatulate to narrowly or broadly obovate (petiolate); stolons 3–8(–12) cm (leaves along stolons almost equal to those in rosettes at ends) | subsp. neodioica |
3. Basal leaves cuneate-oblanceolate, spatulate, or spatulate-obovate (without distinct petioles); stolons 4–9 cm (leaves along stolons smaller than in rosettes at ends) | subsp. petaloidea |
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